Being in the entertainment business (which professional sports is) means you are part of a product and an image that is carefully crafted. If you want to be employed for that business, you have to adhere to their image and conduct that they want to portray.

Yeah, the whole Hybrid system was straight out of the Camry Hybrid. The equipment even said Toyota on it under the hood.

2008. They got the hybrid equipment from Toyota. It even said Toyota on it when you looked under the hood. It was a good car. The battery pack gave it a nice boost of power when you stepped on it plus got pretty decent fuel mileage. It would shut off the ICE at low speeds (under 35 mph) and run on electric only. So it…

I got a new Prius as a loaner when my Tacoma was in the shop. While, yes, I can admit it is very high tech and gets phenomenal fuel mileage, it seriously made me depressed driving it. I can appreciate vehicles that are great at what they are designed to do, but I really didn’t like driving it. I’m not some “screw the…

Jeez I feel dumb. I never realized “Miata Is Always The Answer” was an acronym. It just hit me reading your comment.

What I remember most about driving in Florida is the different spectrums of drivers on the freeway. You have the people doing 35 mph and then you have the people doing 110 mph. It’s just a free for all with drastically different speeds all dodging each other.

Palmer is out at Renault which is a factual description of events. There is no need to speculate on this. Also Max Verstrappen destroyed all of our rental cars in the parking lot. Trust us. It totally happened. No need to look into it.

It sounds like a deal I would negotiate. “Let’s see. If I’m reading this correctly, you get everything and I get the shaft. Sounds good! Where do I sign?”

I actively root against Palmer. I haven’t liked him since he bought his way onto the Lotus practice squad and constantly bumped Grojean out of his car for FP1. It was always Grojean because Maldonado brought in a bunch of cash to the team, so he never lost a practice session. Grojean would still go out in FP2 and…

I think “Big John” had the better line. “If you two want to turn yourselves into a greasy spot on a country road somewhere, go right ahead. I don’t give a shit and I don’t think anybody else does, regardless of what they say to your face. But you two monkeys are not going to do it on my race track.”

You keep using this word, Jabroni and... it’s awesome.

I thought that was a recreation of the Nurburgring when I first glanced at it. That would be awesome if that was possible using local roads.

Why does any kind of study of the United States almost always come out looking like a political map? Regardless of the topic of study. If the map is color coded, it might as well be an Electoral College election map.

Red light runners are my biggest pet peeve. In California we have some kind of red light running mob mentality. Intersections outside of major retail centers you’ll have to wait for at least three or four red light runners rushing the intersection as you wait at a green light. “I can’t be expected to wait for another…

When my wife moved from Miami to Northern California she couldn’t comprehend that drivers didn’t only communicate via horn honking. Apparently in Miami the second car in line at a red light practices their John Force reaction times by blaring the horn the millisecond the light turns green.

Lower Wacker. Is that the route to the honorable Richard J. Daly Plaza where they’ve got that Picasso?

I’ve been pressured out of the fast lane at 75 mph by a Casino tour bus. They haul ass everywhere.

He said about 50 hours of labor. Most shops around here are $125/hr labor. So $6,250 before parts, tax and disposal fees. Yikes.

The best part of that clip is when the Nazis try to stand their ground and that 440 roars to life accelerating toward them. You just see grille and headlights coming at you.

No kidding. Most of the patrol cars around here have a molded plastic back seat that I assume is removed when the cars are retired. The Highway Patrol, however, do not even have a partition between the front seat and the back seat. So when they ride doubles at night and they arrest somebody, one of them has to right…